Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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50520But what have I done?
50520Would it be a blessing or would it be a misfortune if he were to die?
50520_ À me?_asked the astonished d''Ancre in imperfect French.
50520''What,''cried he,''is the frigate weary of carrying English colors?
50520And does she come to surrender without a blow?''
50520But what can not necessity and cruelty make men do?
50520The first sentinel cried,"Who goes there?"
50520What had actually happened?
29117Courageous?
29117For what, and for why?
29117Grindrod, old fellow,''thus loudly did bellow, The traveller mellow--''How are ye, my blade?''
29117She hath never been whipped before, she says, since she was a child( what can her mother and late lady have been about, I wonder?
29117Then he said,''Will you let me have it?''
29117What will you say of me?
37650And is any Thing more reasonable, than that they should enjoy that Right, especially when they only make use of it for commendable Purposes?
37650This may put a Tradesman of good Business in great Distress: Must he lose it?
37650Why should we delight in the Intrepidity, tho''it was real, of a Villain in his Impiety?
37650Will you say that he firmly believes that there is no God, nor Life after this, and that Man is wholly mortal?
16419----- Who among the opulent is willing to restore a_ Father_ to his Family and Christmas Fire Side?
16419But is it likely that the old methods of punishment would be considered by criminals themselves as severer than the present?
16419But who ever heard that our_ pious_ ancestors_ ducked_ women for scolding?"
16419Do you think it fit for any person to lie on?
16419Is this state of things brought about by the infliction of light sentences, or is it caused by the increase among us of a bad foreign element?
16419Still, in spite of this, do not most of us feel that it has of late years been rather safer to reside in a city than in the country?
16419W. as a suitable compliment for this piece of service done his country?
16419What had he done to merit such a punishment as this?
16419What say you?"
59287All right, but what about you?
59287At what? 59287 Blanket?
59287But what about the old man?
59287But what''s that to you when I just want to use your phone? 59287 But what''s the use?"
59287But who was the old man?
59287Ca n''t you see, ca n''t you_ see_? 59287 Ca n''t you_ see_?
59287Did n''t the old man tell you?
59287How do you know what I did or did n''t do?
59287Just let me use the phone? 59287 Then how do you know it''s a serious sickness, Crackpot?"
59287What have you got on him, Lieutenant?
59287What seems to be troubling the missus?
59287Who the hell are you anyway?
59287Why? 59287 But now what''s it all about?
59287Dropped from Federal employment, January, 1959--""What for, Lieutenant?"
59287It''s something to admit you''re human, is n''t it?"
59287Ourselves?"
59287Remember Arch Hoffenstein?"
59287Rugs?
59287She''s ill. She needs help and I''ve been trying--"Without turning, the older Patrolman interrupted,"Larry, what you got on the philosopher here?"
59287Well, Lieutenant, what else?"
59287Who needs you and your kind, Crackpot?
59287Will you do that?"
57689Did I not warn you?
57689Do you not see that I was right? 57689 Well, what is to follow?"
57689A boy is leaning too far out of the window; shall we let him take the natural penalty of his folly?
57689And how are most parents prepared for the discharge of this task?
57689And should we not all agree that, in a certain sense, virtue entitles one to pleasure, and the absence of virtue ought to preclude one from pleasure?
57689But how is it possible by any external system of marks to change the antimoral spirit of an offender?
57689But is it possible to rate mental and moral differences between children in this arithmetical fashion?
57689But is it the child''s fault that we are in this irascible condition?
57689But simply because a child is most easily taken on the side of its animal instincts, are we to appeal to it on that side?
57689But what connection can there possibly be between the performance of duty and the physical pleasure enjoyed in eating sweetmeats?
57689But, it may be objected, is there not a wholesome truth contained in Saint Paul''s saying that"he who will not work, neither shall he eat"?
57689Do I then advise that we administer punishment in cold blood?
57689Does it not depend upon the notion that there is no intrinsic satisfaction in a moral act?
57689How shall we act?
57689Is not our conscience offended when we see a person enjoying the pleasures of life who will perform none of its more serious duties?
57689Is not the connection a purely arbitrary one?
57689Should not this prospective deprivation control the child''s conduct also?
57689Some children, for instance, will not join a game unless they can be leaders; is not that a sign of character?
57689and, second,"What is my own character?"
46746Are you a Dissenting minister?
46746No sabbath- breaker? 46746 Not give clothes?
46746S''help me, ai n''t it fine?
46746The soldiers then?
46746What are you doing here?
46746What are you then?
46746What do you know of our clerk?
46746What have you got here? 46746 What, you not afraid let us go all by ourselves?
46746Where is it?
46746Who ever heard of a criminal being sentenced to catch the rheumatism or the typhus fever?
46746Why should man confess to man?
46746''Did you not commit the fact?
46746''Do tell me, sir; I am informed I shall go down with great force; is it so?''
46746But what are the feelings of those who take part in it?
46746But why should I repeat the whole?
46746Friends interchanged greetings, and"How d''ye do, Sall?"
46746Had you no concern therein?
46746Howell asked indignantly of his judges,"Who will whip a clergyman?"
46746May I speak to them?
46746The witnesses against him all spoke the truth, he said; there was no case to make out; why waste money on lawyers for the defence?
46746This man, May, asked the porter at King''s College if"he wanted anything?"
46746Thou hast been a great sabbath- breaker in thy time I warrant thee?
46746Were you not interested in the murder?''
46746What had become of the fellow?
46746What happens?
46746Where would be the use?
46746Why does no one stir to help him?
46746Why not move the city prison bodily into this more rural spot, with its purer air and greater breathing space?
46746Why not relieve Newgate by drawing more largely upon the superior accommodation which Millbank offered?
46746then thou hast been an abominable drunkard?"
43986What could you do with a man who would do that?
43986( 1) Why did she steal?
43986A place to sleep in, to afford shelter from the weather, to take food in?
43986Are they?
43986Are we to believe that this is because the punishment of the prisoners sent there has deterred them from committing offences?
43986As canaries breed canaries do poets breed poets?
43986At once we hear that they have done similar things; but if we are better than they, surely we must prove it by our actions?
43986But is there any good purpose served by sending people to prison for a few days?
43986But will the man whom you employ to do this laudable work not be a brute also?
43986Can the State afford to allow them to set such an example?
43986Does your official imprimatur remove the brutality of his act?
43986He has behaved for three times that period at no expense to the public; why, then, should their hospitality be forced on him?
43986He is responsible for education, for instance, but what can he know personally of the educational needs of a boy in the east end of Glasgow?
43986He said,"Doctor, do I look unhappy?"
43986He said,"What was I to do?
43986Hell?
43986How is this done?
43986How then do these outbreaks originate, and what causes them to cease?
43986If heredity accounts for his insanity what will account for his sanity?
43986If she was not made better, did she become worse as a result of her treatment there?
43986If they are the cause of the criminal act, how is it that they are admittedly present in others who are not criminals?
43986If we are better than those whom we judge and condemn, why do we treat them as they have treated others?
43986Is he fit to take care of himself and abstain from offending against the laws?
43986It is certainly lurid; but where have they learned it?
43986Know right from wrong?
43986May this not afford a presumption that there is something wrong with the poorhouse?
43986Noo, doctor, does ony sensible man believe in that nooadays?
43986Precisely; but what kind of law is it that can reach only the poorer transgressor and allows the partner in profits to escape?
43986Putting it another way, are there no cases in which this procedure could be adopted?
43986Room for recreation or for quiet rest?
43986That is to say, he will mainly depend on the report of the warder, for after all, does he not know most about the man?
43986The losers are forgotten; and what do they matter anyway if_ we_ win?
43986The poor can not afford to gamble and must be protected from themselves; but can anybody afford to gamble?
43986The prisoner is told he is bad-- and he is; then he is sent-- to be made better?
43986The proper attitude towards the untried prisoner is not that implied in the question"Why should he be allowed to do this?"
43986The question is, Do we, who are so much wiser than they, show that wisdom in our treatment of them?
43986The question is: Is the person by reason of mental defect unable to bear the stress of life under the social conditions in which he is placed?
43986The question ought always to be"Why should he not be allowed to do what he wishes?"
43986We are supposed to have travelled far from the mediæval brutality of prison life, but have the changes not been superficial rather than deep?
43986We know that the boy''s Robin Hood or Dick Turpin never existed in fact; but if they exist in his fancy?
43986Well, is he so bad as all that?
43986What can be done with them?
43986What do the girls learn, and what do the visitors teach?
43986What effect, then, has imprisonment on those who undergo it?
43986What else can the police do?
43986What harm have they done?
43986What?
43986When the blow falls, if they have no resources what is to become of them?
43986Where are the guardians to be found?
43986Where did they get the drink?
43986Why do they return?
43986Why then had he attempted to kill himself?
43986and( 2) Why did she break her bond?
43986but, What are we doing, being what we are and where we are?